I can’t even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought “I guess I should go to Gentoo” but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!
I feel like we only have two options now
- Ascend to BSD-land
- Ironically supporting Windows Unironically
edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD
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Plan9, then you can smugly say Unix systems are sooo legacy.
You get an ARM or RISCV machine to run Linux on obviously. Then you shit on the plebs with their legacy systems.
You also need PostmarketOS on your phone of course.Open source Windows obviously. https://reactos.org/
All these recent Windows to Linux converts, whining about how Linux should be more like Windows, should be going to ReactOS. They want open source Windows, not open source Unix.
Debian Hurd?
BSD.
Lisp machine
Now you have to move on to obscure open source hardware. Linux phone and/or a RISC-V computer
Obvious answer is something like switching to something like BSD, but the less obvious answer is to look into switching to AROS ( AROS Research Operating System, formerly Amiga Research Operating System ).
BSD definitely is a lot more complete compared to AROS, so using AROS will make you superior if you can find a way to keep your workflow as much as possible while making it your daily driver.
Warning: AROS is, as far as I know, not fully open source, but that can be fixed with some reverse engineering that’s well above my pay grade.
Not an Amiga person, but…
goes to investigate if Eric Schwartz — the Amiga, Sabrina Online guy — has done AROS art
Aaannnddd…sure enough, yes.
Did you know that Eric Williams Schwartz made a mascot for AROS (Amiga Research Operating system) named “kitty”?
This reminds me, I need to read Sabrina Online.
I love his “A Walk In The Park” and “Plight of The Artist” animations, to the point I have the Walk In The Park background music on my phone and at one point found what I think was the original tracker file for that song.
I only became interested in Amiga around 4 years ago. Didn’t really know much about it beforehand. Still don’t know a lot, but love it regardless.
Slackware Linux.
Redox
None, go outside and absorb sunlight
That’s been automated by the sun-tracking solar power array managed by SolarAssistant running on Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi. Valuable human time can be dedicated to more productive pursuits.
Haiku OS
I remember the BeOS guys doing a demo at my LUG before they release the BeBox (or whatever their computer was called). That OS was so ahead of it’s time. There were about 200 of us just gasping at how good it was and what it could do. Actually using BeOS on a PowerPC ended up being an on ramp for me to Linux. By the time Haiku came out, life was too busy and I was too entrenched in Linux. Maybe now that I’m retired I’ll take a look at it.
My college roommate got an install CD of the first version that ran on x86, maybe 3.0? I tried it on my computer and became an instant convert. It was so astoundingly much faster and stable than Windows was on the same hardware, had a decent free IDE, and could play MP3s without skipping while compiling, browsing the internet, and spinning a GL Teapot all at once on a Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM. Nothing else even came close for a desktop experience. I bought a copy for myself and every version that came out.
I’ve been daily driving Linux for a long time now, but I still look back and wonder what could have been. There are still things to this day that BeOS did better and faster in the ‘90s on single core sub GHz machines with spinning rust than Linux, MacOS or Windows can on top end modern hardware.
Bout to do a complete 360 on the GPL
edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD
Be sure to tell the FreeBSD guys that you use NetBSD, the only real BSD.
yeah im not some scrub that uses a normie BSD distro. That’s like using Ubuntu
Linux forks.
Elks linux for starters.
